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Father's Day

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Father's Day (1997)

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Reviews Counted:30

Fresh:6

Rotten:24

Average Rating:4.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son, a woman contacts a pair of old flames and tells each that he's the boy's father, setting in motion a forced-buddy, on-the-road romp. Billy Crystal... Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son, a woman contacts a pair of old flames and tells each that he's the boy's father, setting in motion a forced-buddy, on-the-road romp. Billy Crystal and Robin Williams shared the screen for the first time in this remake of the 1984 French farce "Les Comperes." [More]

Starring: Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Nastassja Kinski, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Starring: Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Nastassja Kinski, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Charlie Hofheimer

Director: Ivan Reitman

Director: Ivan Reitman
Screenwriter: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
Composer: James Newton Howard
Producer: Gordon Webb, Karyn Fields, Joe Medjuck, Francis Veber
Story: Francis Veber
Producer: Joel Silver, Ivan Reitman

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01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Crystal and Williams are a must-see match

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11/18/03
Clint Morris
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Moviehole

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Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

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01/01/00
Marty Mapes
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

No masterpiece but undeniably heavy on laughs, the movie is put over by the buffed, lubricated dynamics of two leads who substantially transcend what is otherwise a borderline tepid dose of family values.

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Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today

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Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News

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04/12/02
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Two comic minds, one disappointing movie.

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12/25/02
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

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12/19/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)

A bland, labored, poorly written would-be comedy without a single laugh.

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09/21/05
Chuck O'Leary
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Fantastica Daily

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06/28/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

An uneven and uninspired farce starring the normally riotous Crystal and Williams.

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06/03/04
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
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ReelViews

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11/07/02
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Netflix

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04/10/03
Jeffrey Westhoff
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Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

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05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly

A lame plot and less than hilarious lines by two of the funniest men in the world...make Father's Day more of a downer than an uproarious good time.

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06/23/04
Judith Egerton
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

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Marjorie Baumgarten
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